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title: These land grants tied emigrants to their settlements, and inland Mo… — Mozambique · tree and pragmatics
description: These land grants tied emigrants to their settlements, and inland Mozambique was largely left to be administered by prazeiros, the grant holders, while central authorities in Portugal concentrated their direct exercise of power on, in their view, the more important Portuguese possessions in Asia and
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# Mozambique, sentence 41

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From Wikipedia, [«Mozambique»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozambique), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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These land grants tied emigrants to their settlements, and inland Mozambique was largely left to be administered by prazeiros, the grant holders, while central authorities in Portugal concentrated their direct exercise of power on, in their view, the more important Portuguese possessions in Asia and the Americas.

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**Who acts:** land, prazeiros, central authorities, authorities · **What happens:** grant, tie, leave, administer, concentrate, exercise · **To what, where:** tied emigrants, settlements, inland Mozambique, direct exercise, power

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Mozambique». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (land, prazeiros, central authorities, authorities), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Mozambique:41
# text = These land grants tied emigrants to their settlements, and inland Mozambique was largely left to be administered by prazeiros, the grant holders, while central authorities in Portugal concentrated their direct exercise of power on, in their view, the more important Portuguese possessions in Asia and the Americas.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grants	grant	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	emigrants	emigrant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	settlements	settlement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	inland	inland	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Mozambique	Mozambique	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
14	largely	largely	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	administered	administer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	xcomp	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	prazeiros	prazeiro	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	grant	grant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	holders	holder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
27	central	central	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	authorities	authority	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Portugal	Portugal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	concentrated	concentrate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
32	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
33	direct	direct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	exercise	exercise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
37	on	on	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	view	view	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
44	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	45	advmod	_	_
45	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
46	Portuguese	portuguese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	possessions	possession	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	conj	_	_
48	in	in	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	Americas	AMERICAS	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	49	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grant** | present | this land | tied emigrants |  |  |  | to emigrants's settlements *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent emigrant=Theme to settlement=Goal |
| 2 | **tie** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **leave** | past · passive |  | inland Mozambique |  |  |  | largely *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **administer** | to-infinitive · passive | prazeiros and the grant holders |  |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **concentrate** | past | central authorities in Portugal | authorities's direct exercise of power |  |  |  | authorities's view and the important Portuguese possessions in Asia and the Americas *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 6 | **exercise** |  | authorities *= authority* | power |  |  |  |  | nom exercise «act transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
| 7 | **view** |  | authorities *= authority* |  |  |  |  |  | nom view «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Mozambique», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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